72 westy

[vesp]

Just picked up my new toy from KK. At last i've got something with virtually not rot!

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[ThomasH]

Very nice Camper in sierrayellow!
Interior complete? What are your plans for it?
Greeting, Thomas

 

[Cali_bay]

Hi Vesp,

Nice to see another crossover Westy, looks like a solid OG bus. 8)
Is it a 1.7lt engine?

Be good to see some more pics of the interior.

 

[leon]

Nice yellow westy. I'd be itching to polish it, bet it'll come up a treat. 8)

 

[cyberdyne systems]

Love the colour, i'm all for giving it a polish too! Really looks solid and straight, nice one

 

[PetrolHead]

Sold

 

[PetrolHead]

Sold

 

[vesp]

Been awhile since i've updated so. Today i spent most of the day trying to cut back the paint and buff. What a messy job! Anyway i've done most of the van but then ran out of compound so it will have to wait unitl i can pick some more up.
I've stripped the interior out to clean, repair any surface rust and to sound proof/insulate and run cables.

I've got lots of little touch-up jobs to do on the paintwork when the weather gets better.

Here's where the interior's waiting to be refreshed along with half of the old bus on its end at the back of the garage!

 

[vesp]

In for repairs on the dents and scrapes then a new paint job at Rusty Kampers at the mo, will update with lots of pics soon....

 

[Anonymous]

Another one! Well have to start a Sierra yellow club! It's a colour that comes up so well after a t-cut-even after 40 years !

 

[vesp]

So I dropped her off to RustyKampers for the going over and heres's what she looked like before the transformation.

Some of the dents and repairs needed.

And what was an unknown lurking behind the front panel? (More of this later)

The start.

 

[vesp]

And what was lurking behind the front panel! :confused0068:

More to come.

She had probably had a hard smash and as usual it was pulled with a slide hammer and filled with LOTS of filler!

The decision was made that the best repair would be to cut out the worst areas and graft in the minimal amount new metal required.

 

[vesp]

I haven't posted in along while but since it was painted I had a complete switch around.

Firstly I sold the type4 which I thought was a 1700 but turned out to be a 2l. I then fitted a ej22 subaru engine.



Then changed the interior completely because it didn't work for the family. So its now a berlin interior which I have completely re-vaneered in walnut.





I wanted to have a gas bottle in board but didn't want it in the van so I tracked down a T25 on-board gas vessel and made some brakets to get it to fit.



Finally I changed the wheel set up from 15" gas burners to 15" merc steels with semi off road tyres for a complete change of look and ride.

 

[vwwinston72]

i really like that, it looks proper mean!

 

[gninnam]

Nice transformation 8)
How does the T25 gas thingy work then?

 

[vesp]

Its just like the tank that is fitted to the late bay berlin but twice as big. It enables me to carry gas for the hob and use a BBQ from it, the cherry on the top is it can be filled up at the gas points in petrol stations. Cheap gas. 8)

 

[gninnam]

Cheers for that - might have to look out for one